{"id":54057,"date":"2015-06-29T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54057"},"modified":"2015-06-29T07:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:48:57","slug":"amateur-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54057","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s say, hypothetically, that you want to join a gun rights group.<\/p>\n

Let’s say that you don’t read this blog \u2013 or worse, you read it, but don’t take it seriously. So you don’t know, or haven’t taken seriously, the news that the group “Minnesota Gun Rights”, is basically a Potemkin fundraising front<\/a> the transfers money from Minnesota to Iowa, and spends a bare minimum of it on Minnesota political campaigning.<\/p>\n

You send in your hard-earned money.<\/p>\n

And when you do, the website shows you this:\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“These are the people that we report to – not a boss 1,000 miles away who doesn’t understand Iowa and what Iowans want”.<\/p>\n

That may be the most hilariously ironic slip of all this group’s hilariously ironic slips.<\/p>\n

If you were this fictional person, who might now be wondering “hey, maybe there’s a point to all the things that people’ve been saying about Minnesota Gun Rights<\/a>“, you might follow up by asking the people looking out for your Iowegian<\/del> Minnesotan gun rights a few questions:<\/p>\n